Does Your AI Tool Feel Like JARVIS or The Matrix?
With over 50,000 artificial intelligence (AI) tools and 90,904 AI companies worldwide (Digital EyeN, 2026), how do we select AI tools that address what we need in education to enhance learning, trust, and responsible use? This session applies human-centric design concepts to reflect on what we need and what we want in our AI educational technology.
1) Define what you want in your ideal AI tool if you were not limited by time, money, or talent.
2) Identify how your AI tool will support your role in course design, course delivery, course assessment, or learning assessment.
3) Visualize how human-centric design strengthens AI tool development and use.
1) Define what you want in your ideal AI tool if you were not limited by time, money, or talent.
2) Identify how your AI tool will support your role in course design, course delivery, course assessment, or learning assessment.
3) Visualize how human-centric design strengthens AI tool development and use.
Dr. Cynthia Calongne
Cynthia is a Professor Emerita at Colorado Technical University with 30 years of experience. She is teaching her 16th doctoral AI research class, taught 101 computer science courses for five universities, and conducts research in game simulation design at Virtual Harmony. https://bit.ly/ccalongne
Prior to teaching, she supported USAF Space Command as a software engineer and systems programmer and supported the NASA Challenger project for the teacher resource program at the US Space Foundation. As Myxen, she helped to design a TV series called Bar Karma, which ran on Current TV for one season under Will Wright, who is known for his designs in The Sims, SimCity, and Spore.
She taught 62 university classes where students met and developed class projects in virtual worlds. In 2007-2009, she mentored 800 thirteen-year-old students during their virtual world classes. In 2017, she received The Thinkerer Award for lifetime achievement from the Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education (VWBPE).
Contact info:
Cynthia Calongne, Professor Emerita,
Colorado Technical University,
Colorado Springs, USA
Personal: [email protected]
Prior to teaching, she supported USAF Space Command as a software engineer and systems programmer and supported the NASA Challenger project for the teacher resource program at the US Space Foundation. As Myxen, she helped to design a TV series called Bar Karma, which ran on Current TV for one season under Will Wright, who is known for his designs in The Sims, SimCity, and Spore.
She taught 62 university classes where students met and developed class projects in virtual worlds. In 2007-2009, she mentored 800 thirteen-year-old students during their virtual world classes. In 2017, she received The Thinkerer Award for lifetime achievement from the Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education (VWBPE).
Contact info:
Cynthia Calongne, Professor Emerita,
Colorado Technical University,
Colorado Springs, USA
Personal: [email protected]